Search results for query: *

Forum search Google search

  1. Hitler Triumphant

    Sorry what book are you talking about? The collection of short stories or one of those counterfactual essay collections?

  2. Does this prevent WW2?

    As far as I can see (just off the top of my head), the problem is twofold. a. Stalin just doesn't trust the Western powers. As far as he is concerned (with some justification) their attitude is that Russia should keep clear unless asked to intervene upon which most of the fighting will be done...

  3. Lest Darkness Fall, somebody?

    Let me recommend De Camp's fantasy writings. Apart from his collaborations with Fletcher Pratt, there's things like THE FALLIBLE FIEND (a creature from another dimension is bound in servitude to humans) and best (in my opinion)THE GOBLIN TOWER and its rather inferior sequels. Jorian, a...

  4. Earliest published ISOT?

    This has got me stumped as well. The earliest I can think of is the musical BRIGADOON (1954) about the 18th century village which appears in real time only once every hundred years. Whether this counts, I'm not sure. There's probably folk tales on the same theme. And now I come to think of it...

  5. Turtledove- the End of the Beginning

    Filo- if you want a bad writer, try digging up the works of Amanda McKittrick Ros. She's the one that a group of critics used to read aloud to one another with the jackpot going to the one who could read the most paragraphs before pissing themselves with laughter. The good things about...

  6. Emperor-Baxter

    Could someone translate that last posting into English?

  7. Alternate war??

    Hitler would only have to point out that the British are fighting a limited war in Asia, that he has made peace offers to them, that they're relying on the Americans to save their Empire while expending most of their efforts in Europe, and ask whether it's not obvious that the British are...

  8. Alternate war??

    This has been done many times before. What would have happened is that Roosevelt would have ditched Britain (the alternative being impeachment or a coup) and Hitler would have become an American hero.

  9. Emperor-Baxter

    It's monumentally boring. Avoid like the plague.

  10. Britannicus, not Nero

    Hmm... the trouble is, Nero's initial good rule was the product of Seneca and Burrhus, before absolutism went to his head

  11. Britannicus, not Nero

    Probably a stabler government. On the other hand, it's always difficult to say how someone will react to power. History is full of people who died young and so are ascribed all sorts of virtues- look at the elder brothers of Henry VIII and Charles I. Still, Titus, Vespasian's son, was very fond...

  12. Question about Turtledove

    Actually, his most enjoyable books are probably the DARKNESS sequence which shows ingenuity in fitting WW2 into a fantasy context.

  13. Fatherland's Ending

    I thought it passable thriller but rotten AH. This is better than Harris's other books, which are simply rotten. Though admittedly I haven't read IMPERIUM.

  14. WI: Barbarossa operation not delayed?

    I would have thought that the consensus among historians would be that any delay was of little importance. Leaving aside the question of whether an earlier start was practical, bearing in mind such factors as weather and transport, the real delays appear to have taken place during the campaign...

  15. 1635: The Cannon Law

    How anyone could find any merit in the last three of the 1632 series escapes me. GALILEO at least passed the time, you couldn't even say that for RAM, and I remember thinking that CANNON LAW was a slight improvement but can't recall any more about the book than that. A damning verdict on any...

  16. The Swoop (Or, how Clarence Saved England)

    Chris- thanks for the ref. I've been looking for a copy of THE SWOOP for years but stupidly never thought of the internet.It's not quite "early", mind you- it's a response to a whole multitude of invasion stories. I recommend I F Clarke's VOICES PROPHESYING WAR (1966?) as a study of this theme.

  17. A Meeting at Corvallis

    The sequence is DIES THE FIRE, THE PROTECTOR'S WAR, and A MEETING AT CORVALLIS.

  18. A Meeting at Corvallis

    Blackie- to me, the situation is totally believable. Whatever physics I learned at school is forgotten, but the discussion of the various changes in physical law is plausible (which is all I ask). Could an advanced alien race manipulate in a small area (by cosmic scale) the laws of nature? For...

  19. A Meeting at Corvallis

    As I've remarked before, best thing he's ever done. There are four sample chapters of a sequel trilogy posted on Stirling's approved website. I'm pleased to know what happens to the characters, but I'm mildly concerned about a case of the "Feist Syndrome", when as soon as one "Dark Lord" is...

  20. Chennault And The Flying Tigers...IN EUROPE !

    I give up. When someone starts using a word like "saga", I know... OK, have it your own way, Chennault's lot managed to shoot down almost six Japanese planes for every one it lost. I look forward to your views on "the humility of Douglas MacArthur" and "the greatness of Pius XII".
Top